But not serious because those countries' problems look solvable, given a fair dose of political will, and because their economies are small enough to have little impact on the rest of the world.
As I pointed out in an earlier column in Slate , the growth of labor-intensive exports from Third World countries, a development possible only because those countries are able to offset their disadvantages by competing on the basis of cheap labor, has brought about a huge improvement in the human condition, even if the wages look miserably low by our standards.
It said customers in Italy and Spain had been reducing their spending on mobile phone tariffs because of economic weakness in those countries.
But this is because just about everybody who might join the social network in those countries has already done so, rather than because of any widespread dissatisfaction.
We would -- we have been able to -- again, in sanctions against North Korea or in sanctions against Iran -- place the toughest sanctions on those two respective countries because of our ability to bring a diverse set of countries on the Security Council to an understanding of the importance of those sanctions.
The EFSF in turn provides the aid and guarantees to those countries which need such because their debt burdens are too high, they need to or might default and so on.
Because also, NATO is a solution for those countries which are in, but NATO is not a solution for self-sufficient countries like Russia.
Because if we're not leading, those other countries are going to be leading.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions at GOP House Issues Conference | The White House
Partly because Kassala is a trans-shipment point between those two countries and Sudan, the state has one of the biggest HIV problems in the country.
The Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Pakistan were added to a "watch list" because of what the report calls a worsening trafficking record in those countries.
Little is being done to prosecute the people in those countries who run the ivory trade, he said, largely because they are often local government officials who use their authority to sidestep inspections and intimidate law enforcement agents.
Foreign companies have been slow to bring new drugs into Japan, because doing so requires expensive and cumbersome trials often duplicating those already carried out in other countries.
ECONOMIST: Japan's drug firms on the move: A homespun elixir | The
The Hungary downgrade will not help those European finance ministers meeting in Brussels because many of the biggest banks in their home countries are exposed to Hungary, specifically banks in Austria, Germany and Italy, according to research done by BNP Paribas and described by FTalphaville.
That's important because it will make China less dependent on exporting to other countries, and less reliant on those giant government projects.
One of the main reasons for that is because countries like China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and India are large holders of those currencies.
I'm sure those are conversations that are going to be had, because like we've seen in other countries, unless there's a protection and security force there, it really is not matter what we do if, when the area is vacated by American troops, the same people that caused trouble that led us to come there come back because there's no resistance to them doing so.
In developing countries, these sources of finance have not targeted new markets because they have not needed to take those kinds of risks.
FORBES: Fundamental Changes in How Emerging Markets Innovate
As our demands have exceeded our refining capacity -- because adding capacity here in the U.S. is slow, difficult and costly -- those in other countries where adding refining capacity is not so slow, difficult or costly, they are doing just that.
And the six countries that are involved in those talks - the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany because it was involved in the original negotiations with Iran - those diplomats from those six nations will be talking again today by conference call.
应用推荐